Douglas Holtz-Eakin Quotes

Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter.

The answer to too much debt is not more debt; it is less debt.

Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.

There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money

Families out there know that if they get in trouble and they've spent up a bunch of money and they've borrowed and they are up to hock to their necks, the thing they've got to do is start paying off what they owe and cut back their spending.

We need to stop spending money we don't have.

If you're financially responsible, your children have a much better chance to grow up financially responsible.

Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.

If you have debt I'm willing to bet that general clutter is a problem for you too.

There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.

Debt is the prolific mother of folly and of crime; it taints the course of life in all its dreams.

Between debt and taxes Americans had usually chosen debt.

It's nice to have dreams, but when you use borrowed money to achieve them and act as if money grows on trees, you may have a brutal awakening.

I say all the time I think there should be some courses in the regular schooling system that isn't, even like about credit, things that matter later in life. I learned the harder way: 'Look, I got a $500 credit card in the mail, let's go shopping!'

If you have debt, you have to worry about it. I would challenge each of you to try to be debt-free.

For the vast majority of Americans who work hard and play by the rules, paying the bills may be hard some months, but it's something we always do.

I'm a good businessman. I pay my bills. Growing up in a situation where everything counted helps.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

I've had nonstop financial problems my whole adult life. It's always been a constant balance, year to year: 'Where's the time? Where's the money?'

If you don't have the money management skills yet, using a debit card will ensure you don't overspend and rack up debt on a credit card.

Everyone can get a little sloppy with cash and it's smart to notice. But what's squeezing you is the big stuff you ladle onto your credit cards.